2025-11-18T00:01:34-07:00 2024-12-31 990 2024-01-01 911433369 BAINBRIDGE-OMETEPE SISTER ISLANDS ASSOCIATION BAIN 2068426266 PO Box 4484 Rolling Bay WA 98061 Paul Carroll Board Treasurer 2068426266 2025-11-17 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z BOSIA Paul Carroll 13706 Ellingsen Rd NE Bainbridge Island WA 98110 208334 0 X bainbridgeometepe.org X 1988 WA We encourage mutual understanding, education, friendship, and cultural exchanges between Bainbridge (US) and Ometepe (Nicaragua) Islands. Out of friendship, we help Ometepe communities in education, health, livelihood, and community improvements. 15 13 0 70 0 0 127800 120247 0 0 3479 5393 30516 24087 161795 149727 136554 175840 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7100 9204 143654 185044 18141 -35317 382657 350260 6841 9761 375816 340499 We encourage mutual understanding, education, friendship, and cultural exchanges between the Sister Islands of Bainbridge Island, WA (USA) and Ometepe Island (Nicaragua). Out of friendship, we help communities on Ometepe, primarily in the areas of education, health, and meeting general community needs. 0 0 92321 92321 0 Education: We support students in college with scholarships, and we support learning for special needs students, including blind, deaf, and mobility-challenged people. In its 32nd year, college scholarships helped over 60 students who graduated from Ometepe high schools to study in Nicaraguan universities. Students are selected and monitored by committees in the 9 communities on Ometepe which have high schools and receive stipends of up to $95 a month to assist them with the costs of their university education. Funding is also provided for college seniors and graduate students to complete the additional work required for a degree and certificate in their chosen fields. We fund an interpreter for deaf students, and with her help, we teach sign language to deaf students. We fund technology that helps blind people, and teach them braille and mobility strategies. For all students, but particularly for those challenged by mobility issues, we fund costs for transportation for them to access what is offered. In the field of mental health, we fund the salary of a full-time psychologist to educate, support, and give therapy to combat sexual and domestic violence, and suicide, all of which are significant problems on Ometepe. We also pay for her transportation and other costs associated with her efforts. We also support extra-academic needs (clothing, school supplies) for students to attend a class for those who have had their education delayed to the point where they are too old to be with their peers. 43073 43073 0 Travel: A major component of our mission is to promote understanding between the two cultures, and travel is a necessary factor in that understanding. Each year we have a delegation of high school students go to Ometepe to live and work in communities there. Also, two staff members from the Ometepe office have visas to allow them to travel to Bainbridge. We also supported the travel costs of an adult from Bainbridge Island who lived on Ometepe for 8 months helping in our office with our programs and with communication back to the board. All of those connections happened in 2024 24262 24262 0 Community support: For coffee growers on Ometepe: Production of coffee on Ometepe, which we buy, import, roast, and sell in the US, was significantly impacted by fungal disease over the last several years. We continue to support spraying, fertilization, and introduction of new plants to try to increase the size of the coffee crop. We fund a full-time agronomist to support these efforts. For community needs and projects: These are brought to our office on Ometepe by community members, and approved and funded if they show value to the community and community willingness to engage with us in the success of their projects, usually through their labor. 16184 16184 0 These expenses are associated with the Ometepe office. The office screens, coordinates, and monitors all of BOSIA's activities and funding requests on Ometepe. Included in this expense is the salary of the general manager of BOSIA's efforts and presence on Ometepe. Other office expenses include utilities payments, rent, supplies, and other such expenses. Also included here are monthly stipends for a Bainbridge resident to help in the office. 16184 16184 0 175840 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 15 13 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 WA X X Paul I Carroll 2068426266 PO Box 4484 Rolling Bay WA 98061 X Paul Carroll Officer Board Treasurer 3 0 X X 0 0 0 Robin Supplee Officer Board secretary 1 0 X X 0 0 0 Cami Holtmeier Officer President of board 2 0 X X 0 0 0 Elizabeth Carroll Board member 2 0 X 0 0 0 Carol Carley Board member 2 0 X 0 0 0 Dan Bacon Board member 1 0 X 0 0 0 Barbara Saur Board member 2 0 X 0 0 0 Myong Lee Board member 2 0 X 0 0 0 Auden Moyer Board member 1 0 X 0 0 0 Brenda Berry Board member 1 0 X 0 0 0 Deb Russell Board member 1 0 X 0 0 0 Jackie Finckler Board Member 1 0 X 0 0 0 Shylah Danielson Student Board Member 0.5 0 X 0 0 0 Linnea Danielson Student Board Member 0.5 0 X 0 0 0 Will Treverton Student Board Member 5 0 X 0 0 0 Mina Tremble Student Board Member 0.5 0 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 45 16246 0 0 103956 0 120247 0 5393 5393 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15759 16246 5598 10161 0 10161 0 0 0 0 0 0 66935 53009 13926 13926 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 149727 19319 0 10161 0 0 0 0 175840 175840 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3419 0 3419 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3902 0 3902 0 1070 0 1070 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 813 0 813 0 0 0 0 0 185044 175840 9204 0 189852 149486 128535 120340 0 0 4363 8193 0 0 0 0 0 0 23630 16596 36277 55645 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 382657 350260 0 0 6841 9761 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6841 9761 X 0 0 0 0 375816 340499 375816 340499 382657 350260 -35317 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 95564 152522 93333 127800 120247 589466 77540 81720 66590 78052 82694 386596 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 173104 234242 159923 205852 202941 976062 37247 49400 30045 29460 31780 177932 0 26550 25000 15400 0 66950 37247 75950 55045 44860 31780 244882 731180 285 319 546 3479 5393 10022 0 0 0 0 0 0 285 319 546 3479 5393 10022 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 173389 234561 160469 209331 208334 986084 0.74150 0.74252 0.01016 0.00531 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 1 Central America and the Caribbean 1 6 Program Services Support for college education costs, coffee growing, health services, special needs education and supplies, and community projects, and then also providing the costs of maintaining an office on Ometepe island. 175840 1 6 175840 Eventually, all of our program expenses in Nicaragua go to the benefit of individuals. So our aggregate support to individuals exceeds $5,000. However, it is very rare for any one individual to receive more than $5,000 in a year - only a few of our employees receive more than that, and not by much. We reimburse many people for expenses that someone incurs in order to participate in a program of ours, or to give money for a community to use to benefit its members. I will give details in the following lines about those to whom we actually give money for them to control and spend. Those are chiefly people whom we pay for services, including our own employees, or students who are being given stipends to support their studies in university. Central America and the Caribbean 105 116950 paid to committees or employees who then distribute 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Schedule F, Part I, Line 2 Schedule F, Part I, Line 2 - Staff members in the office on Ometepe are responsible for disbursing funds for expenditures, and are responsible for ensuring that funds are spent as intended. Committees on Bainbridge monitor each program, and are in communication with the staff. The treasurer monitors all financial transactions happening on Ometepe on a monthly basis. Schedule F, Part I, Line 3 Schedule F, Part I, Line 3 - We use accrual accounting, so all expenditures are recognized as they are paid. We really aren't giving grants in the normal sense of the term, but instead supporting programs on Ometepe with our expenditures, which can include giving money to individuals. Spring Gathering (Paddle Call only) 25476 15347 10129 0 0 260 2562 0 203 Annual Calendar Sales 6529 899 5630 0 0 0 0 0 2573 0 32005 16246 15759 0 0 260 2562 0 2776 5598 10161 Form 990, Part V, Line 2b Elizabeth Carroll and Paul Carroll are married. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 Board members Elizabeth Carroll and Paul Carroll are married. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 6 Loosely, we regard all who have been active in the organization as members. There are no strict membership criteria. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 7a Once a year we have an annual meeting to which all are invited. At that meeting, we nominate new board members and new officers, and if changes in the documents of the organization have been seen to need changes, we present them, along with the personnel changes, to the assembled people for approval by voting. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 7b As in the previous explanation, interested people can attend the annual meeting of the organization and vote, along with board members to approve new board members, new officers, and/or changes in the by-laws. (All of those are presented by the board.) Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b A PDF of the 990 is emailed to all board members with a summary included and directions about how to read it to understand it better. It is then presented again by the treasurer in a board meeting before it is filed, and approved by the board by a vote at that meeting. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The governing documents are on the website, but financial documents are not distributed to the public during the year. I know, it's lame: I didn't realize this online system closed at midnight Eastern time, and coming on to file it at 8:58pm Pacific time didn't work for that. And it may be that it will only get submitted early tomorrow. Sorry, and I can certainly pay a penalty.